Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

Lewis H. Lapham

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• I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Body
  • Dress

• Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

  

  K. Flay
  • Something
  • Rich
  • Hip Hop

• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Stop

• At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Day
  • Decision

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Truth
  • Technology
  • Better

• I love parties. I love a good time.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Parties

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Best
  • Mistake
  • Teacher

• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Risk

• I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Doors

• I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Knows
  • Roles
  • Historical

• When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Nice

• Polka dots are fabulous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fabulous
  • Dots

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Information
  • News
  • Newspaper

• What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.

  

  S. A. Bodeen

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• Every Word of God is Spirit and life. When you receive and obey the Word of God, the power of God works in you.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Men
  • Water

• Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Power
  • Broken
  • Pieces